information about that russian lawyer, who met with his son and senior campaign officials in june 2016. now, we knew she had ties of some kind to the russian prosecutor general, who is more or less the kremlin s jeff sessions. but now, that same lawyer, natalia vessel veselnitskaya is admitting those ties go much deeper than we knew. the only reason i m asking these questions is because of the contacts that you ve had with the most senior people who are now in our government. you said your relationship with the prosecutor general is what? s she s an informant. an informant to the prosecutor general. think about that. this person who met with the
richard engel, i am going to be walking this in 51 minutes. it s great to have you with us. i can t wait. reporter: thank you. all right, you can watch richard s full interview with natalia veselnitskaya with a special edition of on assignment with richard engel tonight at 9:00 right here on msnbc. while the president is touting the report released today by the republicans in the house intelligence committee, the democrats say the report does not present a full picture. it reveals some very interesting new information about who donald trump jr. was talking to in the run-up to that trump tower meeting. according to the report, trump junior s phone records show two calls to and from the same russian number on june 6, 2016, three days before the meeting take place. that number appears to belong to evan agalarov, the russian pop star, remember him, and the trump business partner who was the one who helped initiate the meeting. and here s the interesting part. the phone records al
trying to establish who was going to come, what kind of meeting they should have. and there was this key figure, rob goldstone, who was communicating with a family of russian oligarchs, a russian oligarch and his son. and in this communication, rob goldstone says that the crown prosecutor s office, apparently has or the crown prosecutor has apparently this information, damaging, incriminating hillary clinton and is willing to share. and then he describes that there will be a meeting set up with a russian government lawyer. now, there is no crown prosecutor in russia, so it is widely presumed to mean the prosecutor general, who would effectively be the crown prosecutor if there was a crown prosecutor. the meeting take place, that government lawyer is natalia veselnitskaya, she says or initially said she is not a government lawyer, only that she s just a regular lawyer who wanted to talk about sanctions